Retail

Will there be a day when e-commerce stores will trump the brick-and-mortar shopping experience? News that Framingham-based Staples Inc. will close 225 North American stores by 2015, as it beefs up online selling, seems to play into that idea.

Equestrian retailer Dover Saddlery closed 2013 on a strong note, the Littleton-based company announced Thursday.

TJX Cos. of Framingham is recalling 4,600 Gardeners Eden brand light-up autumn decorations that can short circuit and pose a fire risk, U.S. regulators said.

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A national restaurant chain specializing in noodles from around the globe, as well as sandwiches, salads and soups, is expanding into Massachusetts and New Hampshire, beginning at White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury, the chain, Noodles & Co., announced.

Staples plans to close up to 225 stores in North America by the end of 2015, the Framingham-based office supply retailer announced Thursday.

Framingham-based Cumberland Farms said it has agreed to sell 27 stores in the mid-Atlantic region to Petroleum Marketing Group (PMG) of Woodbridge, Va.

The building housing a BJ's Wholesale Club store in Framingham has been sold for $26.5 million.

It happened more than 1,500 times in 2013. Someone in a firm's IT department found an odd piece of malware on a server, or a bank got a call from a major retailer warning that some debit card records had been compromised, or a laptop computer containing a list of social security numbers went missing.

Framingham-based TJX Cos. saw net income for fiscal 2014 increase 15 percent from the prior year, though it declined in the fourth quarter, yielding earnings of 81 cents per share, compared with 82 cents a year ago.